Lancaster will need to work similar magic to avoid defeat this time, the injury to Danny Care being the latest setback.

The All Blacks have won 14 in a row, while England have just one win in New Zealand since 1973.

The Haka: The World Champions perform their infamous pre-match routine. (Photo: Getty)

Haskell, who played a season of Super Rugby here in 2012, wants to debunk the ‘superhuman’ myth surrounding the men in black. “I learned from my time here they are mortal,” he said. “If you pressurise them, they make mistakes.

“Armchair pundits would have you believe they’re doing something revolutionary. They’re not. They’re just very good at the basics.

“It was reassuring to find that there was not some special secret thing they were doing.”

Whether that changes anything today is open to doubt, but by next year’s World Cup in England it just might.